Apple TV - buffering problems

I have my favourite films and TV series on a network drive, linked to iTunes and accessed locally by my three apple TV 3rd generation boxes. They have worked very well, until the latest apple TV update. Now it plays for 15 minutes then endlessly buffers. This is the same on all three TV boxes. Nothing else has changed and I used to be able to watch the same mp4's for hours. Is it the software update, is it just me ? .... currently 3 boxes are useless (Thanks Apple)

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